We all understand that you are just carrying out your official duty and you are not necessarily the policy maker,” writes Dr Justin Ambago Ramba, USSP Secretary General, addressing the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ali Al-Sadiq. [This is in response to the Sudan Government's criticism of the reference made by U.S. President Obama to the Darfur crisis as “genocide” and cited by Sudan Tribune's article of 7 June 2009—accessed by USSP on 08-Jun-2009.] “It is clear that you have to fight for [Sudan's President] Al Bashir as long as he pays you,” Dr Ramba continues, “but for the poor Sudanese masses that are languishing under your totalitarian regime the perception is different.
We are all aware that it was only last month (May 2009) that Sudan was forced to adopt a new criminal law that added war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide into its penal code. This clearly shows that, until then, your Islamic government in Khartoum and its proxy agents were killing with complete impunity first in the South, then the Nuba Mountains and now in Darfur. Amr Moussa [Secretary-General of the League of Arab States] is a friend of the Arabs of Sudan, but still he was quick to realize the dangerous situation posed by your Jihadist laws. You said that the Sudanese laws now criminalize what is taking place in Darfur and that the laws do not need an amendment by including the Rome Statute [of the International Criminal Court] which the Sudanese Government is not a signatory to. The truth is that the amended Sudanese laws can still criminalize what is taking place in Darfur, yet it cannot be applied back-dated to address the crimes for which President Al Bashir, Ahmad Harun [former Minister of State for the Interior] and Ali Kushayb [alleged leader of the Janjaweed militia] are indicted. It is only the Rome Statute which can bring to book the above fugitives for the crimes they committed in Darfur in the period 2003–2004.
Your government is not also happy with the position of COMESA [Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa], which requests the UN Security Council to suspend Al Bashir’s arrest warrant for a year, as you consider it recognition of the ICC. This as well has been the Arab League’s position as declared in [the 2009] Doha [Summit], yet you are not satisfied with both simply because you have guilty conscience. However, you and your arrogant government in Khartoum must understand that the so-called friends of the Sudan—be they in the Arab world, the regional African countries or sympathetic individuals all over the world—will only come to your help using the law and not otherwise. And they can only say and do what is allowed by the UN which recognizes the ICC to which the UN Security Council referred the Darfur issue.”
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Monday, 8 June 2009
[Commentary] South Sudan cabinet extends SSLA term
We are actually in a middle of a terrible mess. And it is obvious that the whole CPA is being implemented in a way that is [contrary] to both the spirit and the letter,” comments Dr Justin Ambago Ramba, USSP Secretary General, on Sudan Tribune's website report of 6 June 2009 that “Cabinet extends southern Sudan parliament term” [accessed by USSP on 06-Jun-2009].
“Every article in this truce has been systematically violated by the peace partners. As we can clearly see that the Article 65 of the Southern Sudan Constitution puts it that the elections were supposed to be held not later than the end of the fourth year of the Interim Period, however, the National Electoral Board decided to delay it to February 2010.
Furthermore as we are now left with only 8 months to go, given the huge part of the agreement unfulfilled, the border demarcations, the voters' registration, the freedom laws, and above all the census results, which remains an impeding block, I personally remain quite pessimistic to any elections taking place in coming February.
The governments can comfortably go on extending their terms in office, while we wait for democracy to come from the sky above.
And with the referendum law taken hostage by the ruling Islamists of the NCP, South Sudanese need to put in more efforts both internally and internationally lest 2011 come and go while we still languish under the riverine Arabs.”
“Every article in this truce has been systematically violated by the peace partners. As we can clearly see that the Article 65 of the Southern Sudan Constitution puts it that the elections were supposed to be held not later than the end of the fourth year of the Interim Period, however, the National Electoral Board decided to delay it to February 2010.
Furthermore as we are now left with only 8 months to go, given the huge part of the agreement unfulfilled, the border demarcations, the voters' registration, the freedom laws, and above all the census results, which remains an impeding block, I personally remain quite pessimistic to any elections taking place in coming February.
The governments can comfortably go on extending their terms in office, while we wait for democracy to come from the sky above.
And with the referendum law taken hostage by the ruling Islamists of the NCP, South Sudanese need to put in more efforts both internally and internationally lest 2011 come and go while we still languish under the riverine Arabs.”
[Commentary] UN Special Rapporteur's concerns over Sudan human rights
The UN Human Rights rapporteur has not said anything new that the people of South Sudan aren’t aware of,” writes USSP's Secretary General, Dr Justin Ambago Ramba, in a commentary to the statement issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan [Dr Sima Samar] as reported by Sudan Tribune [accessed by USSP on 06-Jun-2009]. “And even the solutions she is suggesting are (all) not different to what Southerners worldwide have been time and time again suggesting to our deaf GoSS,” he continues.
“What the international community do not want to say is that, besides the reported catastrophes, insecurities, sufferings and miseries facing the people in South Sudan, there also exists a poor level of governance. A government that is insensitive to the sufferings of its people. It is a government that is deaf, dump, mute, and blind.
Because by giving advice to such an incompetent government, is just waste of resources as none of the advices will ever be taken seriously.
This is true because all those things suggested by the UN rapporteur have already been suggested to the GoSS by their own citizens, unless of course this time it is coming from a foreigner.
And if this be the case, then the UN should better send us a “mental decolonizer”, rather than a rapporteur, so that we can have trust in ourselves.”
Dr Samar's full statement may be viewed here [accessed by USSP on 08-Jun-2009].
“What the international community do not want to say is that, besides the reported catastrophes, insecurities, sufferings and miseries facing the people in South Sudan, there also exists a poor level of governance. A government that is insensitive to the sufferings of its people. It is a government that is deaf, dump, mute, and blind.
Because by giving advice to such an incompetent government, is just waste of resources as none of the advices will ever be taken seriously.
This is true because all those things suggested by the UN rapporteur have already been suggested to the GoSS by their own citizens, unless of course this time it is coming from a foreigner.
And if this be the case, then the UN should better send us a “mental decolonizer”, rather than a rapporteur, so that we can have trust in ourselves.”
Dr Samar's full statement may be viewed here [accessed by USSP on 08-Jun-2009].
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